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BRAKE OPERATING MEANS Filed March 28, 1929 INVEN TOR. willitll n J A-hdlfli A TTORNEY Patented Sept. 13, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE WILLIAM J. ANDRES, OF SOUTH BEND,

PANY, OF

SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, A

INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO IBENDIX BRAKE COM- CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS BRAKE-OPERATING MEANS Application filed March 28, 1929. Serial No. 350,473.

The above and other objects and features of the invention, including various novel and desirable details of construction, will be apparent from the following description of the illustrative embodiment shown in the accompanyin drawing, in which:

The gure is a of an automobile chassis embodying one form of my invention. I

.The illustrated chassis includes swiveled front wheels 10 having brakes 12, and driven rear road vwheels 14 having brakes 16, supporting a chassis frame 18 by means of the usual springs.

The front brakes are operatively connected by means such as aflexible steel cable 20 passing over pulleys 22 on the chassis frame, 3 and the rear brakes are operatively connected by means such as a cable 24 passing over similar pulleys 26. 1 The service pedal 28 operates a shaft 30 provided with arms 32 connected to pulleys 34 and 36 engaging respectively the cables 20 and 24. An emergency lever 38 is also connected to the pulley 36, so that it applies the rear brakes but not the front brakes.

Pulleys 22 are approximately at the rear ends of the front springs, so that the portion of cable 20 which extends crosswise of the chassis is substantially in a neutral axis wlth respect to the up and down movements of the Similarly the crosswlse portion front axle. of cable 24 is in a neutral axis with respect to movements'of. the rear axle.

While one illustrative embodiment has been described in detail, it is not my intention to limit the sco e of the invention 5 ticular embo .dlagrammatic perspectiveto that par: iment, or otherwise than by the terms of the appended claims. The present invention is junior in .date of invention to Sanford application No. 499,681, filed De.- cember 3, 1930, as a division of application No. 247,505, filed January 18, 1928, and it is not my intention to claim herein any of the subject-matter disclosed in said Sanford application.

I claim: 1

'1. Avehicle having a pair of front brakes operatively connected by a cable, a pair of rear brakes operatively connected by a sec- I 0nd cable, a pedal having rigid therewith apair of oppositely-extending arms one of which has fixed thereto a connection extending respectively to the first cable to operate the front brakes, an emergency lever, and a cable fixedly connected at its opposite ends to the emergency lever and the other of said arms and intermediately connected to the second cable.

2. A vehicle operatively connected by. a cable,'a pair of 0nd cable, a pedal having rigiditherewith a pair of oppositely-extending arms one 0 which has fixed thereto a connection extending respectively to the first cableto operate the front brakes, an emergency lever, and cable sections connecting the second cable respectively to the emergency lever and to the other of said arms.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name.

1 WILL IAMJ. ANDRES.

having a pair of front brakes I rear brakes operatively connected by a sec- 

